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Components of Fitness

Sixth graders learn the main parts of health-related fitness — cardio endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility. Knowing them helps you build a balanced, healthy body. They match each component to its meaning, then connect them to activities.

Grade 6Components of Fitness45 minutes1 class periodSHAPEExplicit teaching4 StandardsSHAPE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name the components.
  • ✓Match to meaning.
  • ✓Connect to activities.
  • ✓Build all of them.
Essential Question

What are the different parts of being physically fit?

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Interactive Task
Match It · Interactive

Match the Fitness Component

Project this and match each component to its meaning — tap the component, then tap the meaning.

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Component
What it means
Now tap the meaning!
The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

45 minutes, five moves

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1

Warm-Up — Being Fit

5 min

Is being fit only about being strong — or is there more?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pose the question.
  • Share ideas.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Think.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
2

Learn — Components

11 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Match the Fitness Component.
  • Match each one.
  • Note all four matter.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Match.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
3

Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Do a cardio move.
  • Do a strength move.
  • Do a stretch.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Cardio.
  • Strength.
  • Flex.
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Apply — Apply

11 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Match a sport to a component.
  • Pick one to improve.
  • Plan an activity.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Match.
  • Pick.
  • Plan.
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Cool-Down — Cool-Down

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • What is cardio endurance?
  • Name another component.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the SHAPE America National Standards for Health Education and Physical Education.

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PE.3

Identify health-related fitness components.

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PE.2

Apply fitness concepts.

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HE.1

Explain how fitness supports health.

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PE.5

Value balanced fitness.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Component/meaning cards.
  • Frame: "flexibility is ___."
  • Demonstrate each.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Match cardio & flexibility.
  • Use 3 components.
  • Use demos.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add body composition.
  • Plan a balanced workout.
  • Test each component.
Materials

What to gather

  • 💪Component cards
  • 🔶Open space
  • 💻Match the Fitness Component
  • 📋Fitness planner
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

fitnessbeing physically healthycardio endurancelasting heart & lung powermuscular strengthforce your muscles makemuscular endurancemuscles lasting a long timeflexibilityrange of joint motioncomponenta part of fitnessbalancedincludes all partsactivemoving regularly
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Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What is cardio endurance?
Your heart and lungs working for a long time.
QUESTION 2
Name another fitness component.
Muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.
QUESTION 3
How do you build fitness?
By staying active in different ways.

Cool-down: components of fitness.

Have students match activities to fitness components. A printable fitness planner is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Components of FitnessPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: active, balanced, cardio endurance, component, fitness, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength
  1. includes all parts
  2. force your muscles make
  3. range of joint motion
  4. muscles lasting a long time
  5. moving regularly
  6. a part of fitness
  7. being physically healthy
  8. lasting heart & lung power

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What is cardio endurance?
  2. Name another fitness component.
  3. How do you build fitness?
Answer key — Part A: 1) balanced · 2) muscular strength · 3) flexibility · 4) muscular endurance · 5) active · 6) component · 7) fitness · 8) cardio endurance
Part B: 1) Your heart and lungs working for a long time. 2) Muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility. 3) By staying active in different ways.